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De Beers Group today announced the appointment of Joy Roman as its new Executive Head of Human Resources. Joy will succeed Ann Cormack, who is leaving De Beers Group to pursue new opportunities outside the business.
Joy was most recently Chief Human Resources Officer for Toll Brothers, a Fortune 500 luxury homebuilder focused on the US market. Before joining Toll Brothers, Joy spent 10 years at 3M where she worked in a variety of Human Resources and Strategy roles across the United States and Asia. Prior to 3M, Joy was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. She holds an MBA from Yale and a BA from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Bruce Cleaver, CEO, De Beers Group, said: “We’re delighted that Joy will be joining our Executive Committee to bring her wealth of experience in people and strategy-focused roles as we start on the next stage of our business transformation programme. As we continue to evolve the business to ensure we are in the best position to capitalise on the opportunities ahead of us, and as we continue to build an even more diverse organisation, Joy will play a key role in driving our people strategy.
“My thanks go out to Ann for the many contributions she has made during her time with De Beers Group, including leading the people and change-related parts of our transformation programme last year, and playing a key role in developing our response to Covid-19 at the outset of the pandemic – at a time when we knew very little about the virus but had to take bold action early to keep our people safe.”
Joy will join De Beers Group on 22 March and will work remotely from the US until later in the year.
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Established in 1888, De Beers Group is the world’s leading diamond company with expertise in the exploration, mining and marketing of diamonds. Together with its joint venture partners, De Beers Group employs more than 20,000 people across the diamond pipeline and is the world’s largest diamond producer by value, with mining operations in Botswana, Canada, Namibia and South Africa. Innovation sits at the heart of the De Beers Group strategy as it develops its portfolio of brands, including De Beers Jewellers and Forevermark, and other pioneering solutions, such as recently launched diamond sourcing and traceability initiatives GemFair and Tracr. De Beers Group employees are committed to ‘Building Forever,’ a holistic and integrated approach for creating a better future – one that is fairer, safer, cleaner and healthier; where safety, human rights and ethical integrity continue to be paramount; and where communities thrive and the environment is protected. De Beers Group is a member of the Anglo American plc group. For further information, visit www.debeersgroup.com.